Alice Munro is one of the most important writers of little stories. She writes books based on daily stories, family relations and how these relationships can influence people. It is through the little stories she has written that we can know a world in which the characters fight their own battles
to reach its long-awaited victory. If we read in her books we can point out that human relationships are important for the author; an example of this is the famous story of The Jack Randa Hotel , where we can clearly perceive as a couple can distance for reasons that when they failed to resolve, as everyday problems ended a relationship, as the work can hurt a marriage, the importance of work for women and as the husband chose to change years of living by a person with higher capacities intellectual and professional.
Marriage has many changes that the couple should do for a satisfactory life together; for this, it is essential that couples learn to resolve their differences through dialogue. Today thousands are marriages to have ended up for simple reasons. In these moments we are in a century where the equal opportunities is one of the present topics between marriages; being work one of the problems, the main reason is that women want to get money but this is not paid fairly, besides men always receive more money for the same work that women do. This is one of the common problems we can find nowadays; besides husbands wish that women carry out domestic work and care for their children and care for their children, the problem is that the quality of life is very high and for the same women must work to help her family; the role of women within the family is very important and difficult because women have a multiple role, where they are mother, wife, housewife, friend, lover and confidant. Another problem that we can find is when women work and within of marriage both people want control of the relationship, in this point we can see clearly mentioned in the story Jack Randa Hotel where main character; Gail has marital problems with her husband because they wanted to have control in their lives, Gail finally overcome all conflicts, she resolves it a simple way. After her marital breaking she discovers the factor caused that their relationship ended and she tries to resolve it; besides she learns that she should stop having the advantage in a relationship because marriage should be equal opportunities both work and marital life . She leaves everything to win back the heart of her husband.
In this story Alice Munro teaches us that equality is the key word if we connect it with work and family, We must know that if we want a family there are many changes, We will have to hand over in some situations, all for the family welfare. Gail reflects on his break with Will, and she discovers something important that we should always remember, this discovery is that not everything in life is winning or losing to others, the fundamental idea is to learn to enjoy life with people you love.